Ever thought of what would happen if you took the wobble of dubstep bangers, took some crazy samples and crunked it up to bits of IDM pleasure? You’d probably get PANTyRAID, the collaboration between South-African native MartyParty and L.A.-based Glitch Mobber Oooah. This album stretches far beyond bangin’ tunes: it goes towards finding sounds you’d never expect in any club track. With synth sounds that make you groove and percussive rhythms that make you think, this is a refreshing change of pace from the current state of electronic banger culture.

The Sauce begins with “Crunkalicious”, a track with thick, wobble-hounding synth work and some very peculiar choice of hip-hop percussion, along with some very inventive use of vocal hounding, urging to listen to more as the song goes on. The formula is present as the album continues, as the percussion goes between dubstep, hip-hop, IDM and even tribal: “Worship The Sun” might be the most interesting track on the album with tight-knit phaser synth and crisp and clean percussion along with a man chanting. This album, of course…doesn’t stray too far a path of bangin’ hard bass tracks, as “One Mo!” pretty much is telling us to get down and dirty as soon the beat drops. “Beba” has a great selection of vocal samples and pitch shifting and the beat is something that you’d expect T.I. to drop a verse on…minus the wobble. The album closes with “Our Second Chance”, a spacey, intricate track that lies between a Missy Elliott beat and a Joker dancefloor bender, finding a balance between heavy beats and sci-fi tones that meld with piano and string synths beautifully.

While this Sauce is tasty it’s not entirely perfect: most of the tracks are formulaic in pattern between verse, breakdown and bridge. A lot of the album stays in the same BPM range and it doesn’t feel like an album that flows efficiently. But the work that these two producers put into this overshadows most of the flaws. Let’s hope this isn’t the last time Ooah and MartyParty hit up the kitchen together.

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